This is an analysis of the poem Maybe that begins with:
Maybe he believes me, maybe not.
Maybe I can marry him, maybe not....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bbX XXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011101 1011101101 10011010 0110110 110111011 101111010 111111011 10
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 79
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; maybe is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word maybe is repeated.
The author used the same word maybe at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines not is repeated).
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- idea of the verse;
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